Sentences with phrase «small number do»

Only shareholders who vote against a merger are entitled to bring an appraisal suit, and a fairly small number did in Dell's case.

If the company isn't going to sell a lot of watches, it may as well make healthy profits from the small number it does move to the faithful, who will buy anything featuring an Apple logo.

However, this small number does not portray a true picture of the number of women who would like to avail of a homebirth if a service was available to them.

Reporting the findings of an annual survey of Australian parents, grandparents and guardians, Monash University academics Associate Professor Shane Phillipson and Associate Professor Sivanes Phillipson say 84 per cent think their child's teacher is highly educated but a smaller number don't agree.

While these lawyers were primarily using their mobile devices for email, a smaller number did use these devices for legal research.

Not exact matches

So, why do a small number of individuals and organizations consistently thrive in conditions of rapid change while so many more attain a certain level of success only to get stuck in a rut?

«We would not do this again,» says SerNet Chief Executive Johannes Loxen of the branding blitz, which he says was overkill because a relatively small number of people were affected by Badlock.

Women - owned businesses account for a greater share of this country's employment and payrolls than they did in 2007, but the numbers remain small.

In terms of the methods, there are a number of smaller scale studies, many of which did not include active control groups.

According to the Small Business Administration, the number of startups funded by VCs in 2012 was an abysmal 300 of the approximately 600,000 new businesses started in the U.S., that means 99.95 percent of entrepreneurs did not gain access to VC for their new businesses that year.

That goal puts it in competition with a swelling number of other startups trying to tackle the speedy - delivery space, including Instacart, which recently raised $ 220 million; the New York - based WunWun, which delivers small orders without a delivery fee in under an hour; and Postmates, which does the same but with a $ 5 delivery fee.

Although 400,000 migrants did travel through Hungary in 2015, the number of people applying for asylum in the country was small, perhaps in part because of its less - than - welcoming attitude.

And while 41 percent of small business owners say they don't see any indications that the recession is over, that's actually three percentage points lower than the number of consumers who say economic conditions have not improved.

Now, we've always had a small number of very powerful players — what we're saying in the book is there's a very high likelihood that it could be a different set of players if the traditional industry folks don't move quickly.

Apple doesn't have that issue; there are only a small number of Macs (tens, instead of thousands) that need to be supported, so bugs can be squashed quickly.

«I only have the data at a very high level, but we did detect a small number of people who tested positively in their DNA for being at risk for cancer.

However, it's far simpler to do consistent, smaller price hikes on drugs used by a far greater number of people in order to make up for revenue gaps.

And it doesn't really do what it's supposed to: When Sprout conducted clinical trials, women only reported a small increase in the number of times they had satisfying sex — around one additional time per month.

The release contained no word on how the uproar in the small business community following Obama's «You didn't build that» comment might be affecting the numbers.

«The numbers don't matter so much as the concept: Small improvements add up to massive differences.

Even a small number of high - profile accidents could do more than statistics to influence the opinions of lawmakers and potential customers, at least in the short term.

Trump's donor list doesn't include as many big companies, and the total haul is relatively small, compared to Clinton's numbers.

Does the risk of false positive results outweigh the benefit of preventing a small number of deaths from breast cancer?

Nevertheless, Williams did manage to finish a number of projects at Twitter: He migrated Twitter to a new data center and revamped its technology; moved headquarters as the company grew, landing in offices in downtown San Francisco; made six small acquisitions; and hired another 280 employees, including most of the current management team.

Prizes from business contests run the gamut: A seemingly infinite number of local and business - school competitions offer small - change awards of $ 5,000 to $ 15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out six - figure prizes annually, as do accelerators MassChallenge and TechStars.

But AWS does host a massive number of websites, especially startups too small to own their own servers.

CNN noted that its growth doesn't look as impressive as its competitors in part because the network had a number of special presidential debates and town - hall events in the first quarter of last year that boosted its reach, so the rise since then is smaller by comparison.

Millennials and Gen Zers hold the power to do this, as we will soon see them start small businesses in ever - increasing numbers.

While Black Panther rode a huge wave of critical acclaim and fan excitement to the biggest opening weekend ever for the month of February (and the fifth - largest of all - time), raking in more than $ 426 million worldwide, a small number of Internet trolls still did what they could to dampen the good vibes surrounding the trailblazing film, which features Marvel's first African - American director (Ryan Coogler) and a cast led by black actors such as Chadwick Boseman and Lupita Nyong» o. Starting last week, in the first few days of Black Panther «s highly - anticipated theatrical release, some Twitter accounts started trying to spread false accounts of attacks at screenings of the movie.

Most smaller companies, of course, don't have multiple international accounts or a 15 - person financial staff to crunch numbers.

First quarter's milestones will be smaller than the fourth quarter's, but each month and quarter will have a target number based on the amount of marketing I plan on doing during that time.

For Precision, which has recently done a number of small acquisitions and plans to continue, the Berkshire acquisition will give it access to Buffett's large checkbook.

Unfortunately, not many of the top 100 banks does a good job making smaller loans, available to business owners, in the $ 40,000 to $ 50,000 range, based on my analysis of the numbers.

Our testing has shown that doing this in moderation for just a small number of stories can lead to more conversations between people and their friends on all types of content.»

Colonial Charleston numbers just over 650,000 people, but there's plenty to do in this small town and its tax rates are competitive.

«But there is a shockingly high number of startups and established small businesses that have not even done the most basic, even free, things to meet customers online.»

A growing number of jurisdictions have adopted crowdfunding provisions in their rules or statutes recognizing that equity crowdfunding, done responsibly, with appropriate disclosure and safeguards, may be another valuable tool that small companies can use to raise capital.

She says Starbucks will push out a smaller number of more relevant product promotions and focus on those customers in the afternoon, a time when the company hasn't been doing as well.

In BC, we have a number of exemptions that allow small businesses to raise capital from their family, friends and communities — in short, to do crowdfunding.

There are a number of things governments could do to strengthen economic growth and the platforms of all the parties contain small initiatives that might help.

Unlike your personal credit, it's not expressed in a fairly universal score, but rather is typically expressed in a series of reports that address how timely a business repays vendors who offer payment terms, their payment history with any current small business loans, industry information (including the overall creditworthiness of other businesses within that industry), and comparisons between the business and others within the same revenue class, size, number of employees, and the region where they do business.

You do not need to be incorporated to get a small business loan provided you are a registered business with a business checking account and have a business tax I.D. number.

The demand for these songs (which are large in number) is very small, but it does exist.

The company doesn't have to disclose average pay, which would probably be skewed higher by the smaller number of Amazon's highly paid tech workers.

Given the small number of long periods without one, I don't actually think they are of any signifigance.

Gilbreath explains that while other firms may have hundreds of clients, Ahalogy goes deep with a smaller number — they even turn down customers when they don't feel that they would benefit from the optimization and marketing assistance Ahalogy currently offers.

I'd tend to err towards the large market leaders in China because I just don't know how much you can trust the numbers coming from some of the smaller companies over there.

Agolo has raised a number of smaller seed rounds of funding before now, but with its latest cash injection the company said it now plans to «transform the way financial service analysts do their jobs» by expanding its platform to cater to asset managers and investment banks.

But the Bank also has something at its disposal to get around this if the numbers don't seem to add up — namely, reducing its estimate of potential growth in order to make the output gap smaller than the current baseline would suggest.

The old construct for models relies primarily on analysts who cover a small number of companies and independently build models that don't all work the same way.